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There’s no question when it comes to whether or not I am as perfect as I can be already. I’m not. I have so much to learn, but often times, what holds me back is in inability to admit that I still have so much to learn.

I know that I need to eat less, move more, etc. What I struggle to understand is why I want to eat so much so often. Delving into the associated feelings to find an answer threatens to put me in a place in which I have to feel some uncomfortable things.

Why do I feel such a strong urge to go out of my way to make a stop at Krispy Kreme on my way home from a certain man’s house? Am I sabotaging myself since he doesn’t love me quite enough? Am I trying to fill a void? Am I depressed because I’m not getting what I want when I want it?

I could answer yes to all of these questions, but in thinking about these things, I find myself trying to put on a face of bravery or indifference to spare myself from feeling those unhappy feelings.

I have so many reasons to be thankful, and I am. I have so much. I
struggle to admit that I still want more (in relationships, in weight-loss, in everything…) because I don’t want to seem ungrateful for everything that I do have.

Gaining control of my life is obviously a multi-faceted process, and I’m not succeeding in all of the areas yet. Overall, I’m happy more often than I’m sad. I’m thankful more often than I’m envious. I’m at peace more often than I’m stressed.

I’m in a good place, but I’d like to get to an even better place. Can I do that without trudging through some uncomfortable emotions to get there? Probably definitely not.

It’s not always easy to love myself just because (not because I lost some weight or because I’m doing well in school or because I’ve accomplished x, y or z) just because, but it’s getting easier.

I’m learning that my existence (my purpose) is to learn and change and grow. I want to impact others with my positive attitude and with my willingness to try and fail and try again.

Success isn’t about getting from point A to point B without making mistakes. It’s about continuing to fight through obstacles and starting over when necessary. It’s about understanding who you are and what your purpose is, and then turning those thoughts into action.

Last week at Monte and Olga’s house, I tasted a green juice that Olga made with their fancy new juicer. It contained spinach, kale, cucumber, celery and other healthy green things, and it tasted surprisingly great! They sent me home with their old juicer and inspired me to try making juice myself, so I made a trip to the supermarket and came home with a variety of fruits and vegetables.

Sunday morning (the most rushed morning of my week) I drank juice that I made the night before. It contained spinach, apples, oranges and a banana. That’s a lot of sugar, but it seems like a better choice than the doughnuts I might have had in prior weeks.

I’ve always been leery of juicing because it feels wasteful. We also miss out on fiber when we juice, and I’m having trouble deciding whether that’s a bad thing or not.

– Do we need the fiber?

– Are we missing other nutrients when we don’t eat the entire piece of produce?

– Would a smoothie (like the ones I made for later today) be a better choice?

I like to chew my food so I’m not planning on doing a juicing fast or anything extreme like that, but this does feel like a good way to consume more fruits and veggies. We’ll see how it works.

Do you juice and/or drink smoothies regularly? If so, do you worry about not eating enough protein? Is there anything else that concerns you when juicing?

Before I begin I have to warn you that this post might be long and scattered because I have a lot to get off my chest today, and I’m not sure where to start.

I could never put into words how much I appreciate the unwavering support that I receive here. Many of you have been here since the beginning waiting to see me reach my goal, encouraging me to keep trying. I love you for that, and I hope you never stop. But right now I need to start digging out of this rut of complacency that I have been in for a lot longer than I want to admit.

Losing 100 pounds is often enough to dramatically alter the lives of those who lose it, but it’s not enough for me. I have experienced so many positive changes, but this is not a post about that. Right now I need to figure out how to change my mindset, how to make myself move forward again in a strong, steady and powerful way.

I don’t know how to climb out of this proverbial hole that I’ve been living in. I’ve been living comfortably with the fact that I’ve lost so much weight for so long now that it feels like I need to start over. My past accomplishments don’t need to be forgotten, but they’re old news…really old news. And I want to bask in some new accomplishments.

Before I continue, I’m going to ask that everyone refrain from telling me that I’m more than a number on a scale, or that I need to love myself so others will, or that I won’t be happy when I get to my goal if I can’t be happy with myself now. I’ve heard all of that, and I understand most of it. But let’s face some facts today.

When I look at my life I see some things that I like and some things I still want to change, but everything is overshadowed by a giant dark cloud that is the number on the scale.

I used to encourage others by saying that you don’t have to reach your goal before you start feeling good about yourself. You just have to start. And it’s true. I know it’s true because when I said it, I was feeling it. Right now, what I accomplished throughout the first part of this journey is simply not enough. I’m still obese.

I could make a list of reasons I love and respect myself today, and that list has grown more in the last year than it has at any other point in my life. I know that I’m a good person, and I have been working through emotions that are difficult to face because I’m trying to become a better person. There’s a lot of work going on inside my head, and that’s important to recognize (even though most of it is far too personal to discuss in such a public forum.)

But the fact remains that when I look at myself, I see the number on the scale. We can say it doesn’t define me, but the truth is that it is me. My body grew to its largest size because of what I did to it, and whether I like to admit it or not, my size currently defines who I am above everything else.

Look, I have a host of other imperfections as well, but my size haunts me. It’s the truth, my truth, and the things that led me to my extreme obesity (and the snowball effect it has had since) are not easy to face. It’s hard to admit when you’re wrong, but I’ve been wrong a lot. I made some pretty incredible mistakes. I mistreated my body and my loved ones, and in many ways I led a life that could never have been happy and free if I didn’t begin to face those issues.

Before I started losing weight I would always say that I was a “good investment.” I wanted to believe it was true because surely I’d eventually mature into more than I was – a grossly overweight, unhappy, unmotivated, unsuccessful shell of a human-being who didn’t value herself enough to create any positive change in herself. (Yeah, the truth hurts, and it’s still not easy to admit now.) But that’s how I viewed myself.

When guilt set in I told myself that I’d do better tomorrow. I told myself constantly that the future was filled with hope, yet I failed to give myself any reasons to be hopeful.

Fast-forward to the present: I can’t say that I’m as horribly unhappy or unmotivated now as I was prior to 2009. As I said, I like a lot of things about my life these days, but there are still some major things I need to change.

I need to change my environment. I prefer living alone and in a city so I am planning a move into a cute little apartment in downtown New Orleans in the Fall. Living alone will be good for me. Controlling what is in the pantry and the refrigerator will be good for me. I know that, but I also realize that everything I eat now is a choice. It’s my choice, and it’s up to me to make better decisions. One thing I’ve noticed spending most of my time downtown is that I’m more likely to go out for food. It will be easier when I have my own little kitchen, but I will still have to make choices. Living alone won’t solve everything, but it will be a big leap in the right direction.

I also need to claim what I really want. I mean, I wish I was fit and trim, but we all know that I have to do a lot more than wish to be at goal. It looks like I’m going to have to fight a hell of a lot harder than I did when I started my journey, and I have to accept that. End of story.

I need a routine too. I’m always on the go, and I don’t spend a lot of time in one place. Just in the last few months I’ve been in Colorado, Virginia, D.C., New York, Houston, etc. And over the next couple of months I’ll be in New York again, Baltimore, Los Angeles and Dallas (maybe Oklahoma too.) Traveling a lot means that I have to have a different game plan. I lost weight when I traveled before so I know it’s possible, but I have to be mindful.

I’m also lacking accountability. I left Weight Watchers again recently after another bout of frustration with PointsPlus, and now my meeting no longer exists. Say what you will, but weighing in at meetings every week changed my life. I need to find a new meeting and make it my highest priority again.

I’ve gotten lazy with my workouts too. Sure, I do them occasionally, but I love working out. I crave endorphins nearly everyday so why the hell am I not doing it? I don’t have a gym membership anymore, but there’s nothing stopping me from joining another one. I’ll work that out this week, but until then I will do 30-Day Shred at home at least 5 times over the next 7 days.

I could drone on for hours about why it’s hard and how it’s not fair that I have so much further to go than the average person who loses as much as I’ve lost, but lamenting the work I have to do will not bring me closer to my goal.

I still say no to myself a lot more than I say yes, but I’m not doing enough. I know that, and I take responsibility for that.

The fact is that my actions don’t help or hurt anyone except me. I’m surrounded by people who love me and want me to be happy and healthy, but I have to get there on my own. I’m happier than I was at 400+ pounds, but I’m not as happy as I’ll be at 150 pounds. And it’s not because I don’t think I don’t deserve to be happy now. It’s because I know that I am capable of so much more.

I’m preparing a life for myself in which obesity will no longer define me. I’m in school studying Public Relations. (Yep, I declared recently.) And I’m dreaming of a day when I can claim what I want for myself in my career and in relationships without the worry that my body is keeping me from fulfilling my desires.

This is my reality, friends. This is my struggle, and no one can fix it except me. Last week I admitted that I don’t know how, and sadly, I have not found the answer yet. The truth is I can’t imagine stepping on the scale and seeing 275 or 250, or 199. (I could see the first number in the next month or so, but it feels as far as Mars!)

I don’t know how I did what I did the first time. I don’t know how to wake up every morning with purpose. I don’t know how to convince myself that today is the day (not tomorrow.)

I feel an utter lack of confidence and an overwhelming amount of insecurity, but I know what I want today. I know what I want for my future, and I know that it’s mine for the taking. I also know that I don’t have to get to my goal before I can start feeling on top of the world again. I know I just have to start moving toward it.

This is my journey, and I’m doing things on my time. I just need to turn the clock on again, and I need to remind myself that I’m worthy of it if I’m willing to work for it.

I find myself at the supermarket at least a few times a week. I things like chicken breast and turkey burgers in bulk, but I stop in regularly for fresh produce and other things that sound good one day and not the next.

This isn’t a great habit because I often buy unhealthy foods on a whim, then I eat them. I’m trying not to do that right now, and I’m okay at least today.

How do you handle it? How often do you find yourself at the grocery store?

While we were in New York last week we ate cupcakes from Crumbs, one of my favorite cupcake shops in NYC. Kelly brought a variety of them to my little birthday dinner, and we all shared them. Even ‘The Suit’ had a bite or two even though he’s not a fan of cake. (I don’t understand this at all, but I accept it anyway. Hehe…)

Our first night in the city was not without cupcakes either. We shared three little 50-calorie cupcakes from Baked by Melissa. Actually, he took a bite of one, and I ate the other 125 calories or so by myself.

I didn’t go as overboard with cupcakes as I have done in the past, but I had three little ones the first day and the equivalent to almost one big one on the second day. I ate them and enjoyed them so when The Suit learned that I’d probably get one the following day he asked me why. At first I was aggravated by the question, but I soon became aggravated that I didn’t have an answer.

He did not say “You don’t need another cupcake, Kenlie.” He did not say “Why would you eat another when you’ve had so much?” He didn’t ask the question in judgment at all; he asked it out of curiosity. He seemed surprised, and I felt a little defensive. The best answer I could come up with was that I just knew that I wouldn’t be able to have one later.

When I realized that I was *not* actually craving one and that my only reason for eating one was that I might want one a month from now, I felt pretty silly. Around anyone else I probably would have been embarrassed, but I felt relieved that I had found the answer to a question that I’ve always been too afraid to ask. He makes me feel safe so I can be honest with him and myself, and at that moment I realized I had more thinking to do.

The truth is that I like cupcakes, but I don’t love them as much as I thought I did. Since January I have expressed to Kelly and on my blog that I’m usually disappointed by cupcakes once I actually eat them, and the same is true now. They’re good, but they’re hardly life-changing. And I enjoyed the amazing company and experiences that I had last week more than any cupcake I’ve ever eaten.

Once again, I didn’t think about food as much when The Suit was around. I thought about it, but it didn’t consume me. I will remember a lot of things about our last day in New York, but I have no regrets about skipping the cupcake. I could have had it, but not having it became a liberating experience for me. On second thought, maybe I will remember not having it. Maybe I’ll remember taking control of something that has tormented me far too long.

Regardless, I’m thankful for the person who asks tough questions with patience and empathy, and I’m thankful that every moment brings a new opportunity for me to make choices that make my life healthier and happier. Who could ask for more?

I’ve been away from the internet more than usual this week, and I’ve discovered something about myself that raises some interesting questions in my mind.

Over the last few days, I’ve been outside of my regular routine. I haven’t been at home, and I’ve spent quite a bit of time with ‘the suit.’ I noticed tonight that when I’m around him I don’t think about food as much. Actually, I really don’t think about it at all unless we’re deciding what to eat.

Earlier tonight I was hungry, but I didn’t crave anything in particular. And at lunch today with friends, we all enjoyed our meal. I just didn’t focus in on the food itself as much as I sometimes (okay, usually) do.

It’s a liberating feeling, and it’s not easy to explain to someone like him who doesn’t struggle with food addiction. Thankfully, he seems to understand my thoughts anyway, and he listens regardless.

When I mentioned it to him, he said that it’s probably because he just doesn’t get excited about food. He likes nice restaurants, and he eats when he’s hungry, etc. He just doesn’t think about it much otherwise. Does anyone else reading this feel that way? Is that your goal?

It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around this feeling because food has been such an important part of my life for so long, but I like this feeling. Actually, I love it! I love not thinking about it, and if I could bottle up this feeling, I’d do it.

Have you ever experienced something similar? How would you explain it?

After a post I wrote earlier this week, I had to face some real feelings and thoughts, and while it’s not easy to share them, I’m going to. Here’s where I stand (and where I’ve been standing longer than I care to admit) right now. I feel stuck. I weigh 12 pounds less right now than I did at the beginning of the year, but it has been far too long since I made substantial progress.

I’m not discounting the fact that I exercise like a champ on a consistent basis…nor am I belittling the fact that I’ve managed to maintain my 100 pound loss. These are both incredible things, and I’m damn proud of what I’ve accomplished so far. That said, I’m not happy with where I am now. My eating habits need to change, and they need to change now.

As I write this post, I’ve just successfully completed the first day of a personal challenge that I hope will spring board me into weight-loss once again. I’ve counted calories all day, and I’m ending the day having consumed 1,474 calories (most of which came from fruit, veggies, egg whites and other lean proteins.) My workout today included 30 minutes on the elliptical (easing back into it after being off for a month) and a strength workout for my arms followed by 5 minutes on the treadmill.

You can't really tell that I was sweating buckets, but I was...And I like it that way.

People say that weight-loss is easy, but those people often miss the point. I’ve lost 100 pounds. I know how to eat, but sometimes I find it extraordinarily difficult to convince myself that it’s a good idea. That’s the hard part, at least for me, so I’ve decided to eat about 1,300 calories on rest days and no more than 1,500 calories on workout days. I’ll listen to my body and do my best to adjust, but I think this is a healthy and realistic window that will yield good results.

I like the gym, and I like exercising outside when the weather allows it. I love to sweat, and I love to feel my heart pumping because it makes me feel strong and capable and athletic. Now it’s time to reintroduce healthy eating into my everyday life. And I’ve decided that for the next 30 days (probably longer, but this is my initial commitment) I’m going to track my caloric intake. I made a difficult and bitter decision to leave Weight Watchers shortly after they unveiled the new PointsPlus plan over a year ago, but I never fully committed to counting calories. What can I say? That was then, and this is now. I’m going to try again.

I realize that counting points and calories both work as long as you do it consistently, but I’ve been fighting with myself over the last few months to figure out how I can make PointsPlus work for me. I’ve posted several times about modifying the program to work for me by counting fruits, tracking EVERYTHING through the recipe builder, etc. But the fact is that a successful day in my WW tracker looks like about 2,400 calories, and that’s far too many.

I’ve wanted to believe that I could make PointsPlus work because I love the support of the meetings, and even more so because I feel so indebted to Weight Watchers for what the helped me achieve in losing the first 100 pounds. I also adored my first leader in New York, Jen, and my current leader, Penny. I’m also completely infatuated with David Kirchhoff, the most handsome, friendly and witty CEO of all time. (Swoon.) But the fact is that, I’ve complicated the new program so much in my head just to make it work at least a little bit, that the simplicity of calorie counting has been a relief today. I’m not saying goodbye to Weight Watchers. I’m just trying something new to see how it compares.

Day one of calorie counting was a success...

I’m tracking my intake through SparkPeople for a couple of reasons…First, because I like the people I know behind SparkPeople. You all know Coach Nicole now, right? She doesn’t know I’ve crossed over to the calorie counting side yet, but she will soon. And secondly, I love the SparkPeople iPhone app! It’s fantastic! In addition to tracking my caloric intake, I can also track my workouts. I can even get specific with my strength exercises, weights and reps. I’m in love with this app, and I like that it’s free.

So this is where I am. I’m starting over again because it seems like the right thing to do. And I’ve said before that I’ll restart as often as it takes. It’s better than throwing in the towel or refusing to face the fact that I’ve become complacent with food, right? Anyway, I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere…But I’d like to see my excess weight flee the scene, and I’m hoping that this big change in my routine will do the trick.

What’s the bigger challenge for you? Food or exercise? Do you track your calories everyday? Do you track you intake at all?

Living in New York and traveling regularly has allowed me to sample some of the best cupcakes on earth! Cupcakes and I have a long, complicated (well, not really so complicated) past that has usually involved me indulging in too many calories.

But during my last trip to NY I realized that my love for cupcakes has taken a serious turn. I’d be lying if I said that these photos didn’t make me smile, but they no longer perpetuate cravings that feel nearly impossible to control, and that is so cool!

You can click on the picture to make it bigger if you feel like torturing yourself....

I think it’s okay to love cupcakes, and I think it’s okay that my heart flutters at the thought of having a 44 calorie red velvet from Baked by Melissa next week. But it’s nice to feel like I can take it or leave it.

Has your taste changed over time? Have you had any life-long cravings that subsided over time? If so, will you tell me about them?

Last week, I said I’d be sharing some awesome guest posts this week, and it starts today with a special post by KeepItUpDavid! He’s a stellar example of how blogging has made my life fuller and richer even apart from weight-loss, the kitchen or the gym! Check out what he has to say about one of my favorite foods today! And be sure to check out his site if you haven’t already. You’ll be glad you did!

Hello, fans of All The Weigh! What a treat to be a guest blogger on this site. I’ve been a fan of All The Weigh for a long time now, and it’s been really wonderful getting to know Kenlie both from her blog and in person – she’s been out to LA a couple times and has even stayed as a guest in my house (try not to get jealous)!
My name is David, and I’m a fellow weight loss blogger who writes about my journey over at Keep It Up, David. Through diet and exercise, I’ve lost over 165 pounds and counting, and I write about everything: the ups, the downs and the in-betweens. Right now, there’s a contest on my site with the chance to win a $20 iTunes gift card, so click here to find out how to enter!

Kenlie has mentioned on a couple occasions that she’s been introduced to new foods through my website (I love trying new things, especially types of produce I’ve never seen or heard about before), so I thought it only fitting that for my guest post on All The Weigh, I’d share a recipe. I like to experiment in the kitchen, and rarely do I use a recipe without modifying it, either to eliminate some calories or tweak the flavors (or both). I recently went to a party that had a potluck element to it, so I decided to make something that I’ve never made before… so, without further ado, here’s how I made…

David’s Mini Crab and Shrimp Cakes!

I love a good crab cake, but they can be loaded with calories and fat, since it’s typical to fry them and they often have a load of mayo or butter in the mix as well. In September, I found a baked crab cake recipe that my mother used, but even that called for 1/2 a stick of butter. There’s gotta be a healthier version somewhere! I scoured the internet and ended up combining elements from a few different recipes to come up with this dish. It starts with about a cup of scallions (I ended up using the entire bunch from the store) and roughly 4-5 tablespoons of parsley:

Then I added 4 tablespoons of nonfat Greek yogurt, 2 tablespoons of low-fat mayo, and the juice of 1/2 a lemon:

Spice time! 2 teaspoons each of dry mustard, dried dill, and worcestershire sauce and 1 teaspoon each of cumin and paprika:

Make way for the main ingredients! My initial plan was to use all crab, but that plan was thwarted when I got to the store and saw the price tag on the crab – holy goodnight, it’s expensive! So I bought two 6-ounces pouches of crab meat, and 1.25 pounds of bay shrimp. Altogether, that’s 2 pounds of seafood. In addition to being the most affordable, bay shrimp are also teeny-tiny, which means I didn’t have to chop them. I love a good time saver! (I also considered using imitation crab, but since I was going to a party in honor of a really good friend, I decided I’d go with at least some of the real deal). Here’s the seafood in the bowl:

Next up, bread crumbs. I’ve recently taken a liking to crispbread. It’s a Swedish rye cracker that you can find in a lot of supermarkets that has a great crunch and is very light and airy. They’re big, like full-sized graham crackers, and each one is about 40 calories. I put three in a ziploc bag, used a wine bottle as a rolling pin, and beat them into crumbs:

Time to mix it all up!

Next I formed them into golf-ball-sized balls, and rolled them in more bread crumbs – but these were crumbs from a box, pre-flavored with Italian seasoning:

This recipe made 30 appetizer-sized crab and shrimp cakes, which I spread between two baking sheets that I lined with foil (for easy clean-up) and sprayed with PAM:

You could also make burger-sized patties, if you were serving this as an entree. I popped them in the fridge for about an hour (I’m not exactly sure why, but I saw this step in a couple recipes online, so I figured it was beneficial), and then they went into my oven, which was preheated to 250 degrees. They cooked for about 18 minutes, and halfway through, I rotated the trays.

While they were in the oven, I whipped up a quick and easy chili-lime dipping sauce that only has three ingredients: 1 cup nonfat Greek yogurt, the zest of a lime, as well as the juice of 1/2 of it, and a teaspoon or so of chili powder (you can add more or less so suit your tastes, my tendency is to add more):

Don’t tell Kenlie, but that’s her cereal bowl that she left at my house! I might have promised to sent it back to her, but I never did. Oops! Give the bowl a stir, and the dipping sauce is complete!

Usually I like to end my recipe posts with a glamour shot of the finished product, but since these were headed to a night-time party, I snapped a very unglamorous shot of them in the Tupperware box that I used to transport them. They still look pretty good, right?

I’ll be honest – a couple cakes fell apart in the oven or when I tried to pick them up with a spatula, so make sure you give them a good squeeze when you’re making the balls. But the cakes were tasty! They were a hit at the party, and even surprised one guest, who thought, in the dim light, that they were cookies.

I’m going to end this post the same way I end every post on my blog – with a simple phrase that acknowledges my weight loss success so far and encourages me to continue making good, healthy choices:

If you read back through the archives of this blog, you would see an incredible difference between Kenlie who attends weekly WW meetings (regardless of rain, snow, etc) and Kenlie who’s trying to do it on her own. You’d also see a stark difference in the amount of weight I lose when attending meetings versus not attending meetings. And you stick around, you’re going to see that extraordinary shift again in the coming months.

After attending a new meeting Thursday night, I’ve found myself excited to cook food again and to get the most bang for my buck (in p+ values) though this time there’s an added layer. I’m challenging myself to eat vegetables as the majority of my points. You might be thinking “What is she babbling about? Veggies are free!” But hear me out…

When you combine zero p+ foods in the recipe builder they’re no longer zero points because the value actually changes when the points for each item are calculated together. In short, I’ve been tracking incorrectly. I already knew that PointsPlus values could change when I combine two servings of something, but I’ve never tracked fruits and vegetables that way until now. And it seems that most people don’t do it that way, but if I’m eating fresh fruit salads or meals that are vegetable dense, I need to track properly to reach my goal.

For lunch today, I ate a giant salad then logged it in the recipe builder before I tracked it. Check out the details:

1 c baby spinach (o)

1/4 carrot (o)

1/4 large zucchini (o)

1 small apple (o)

1/4 c red onion (o)

1/4 cucumber (o)

1/2 c tomato (o)

1/2 c broccoli (o)

When these zero p+ foods were added up together, they totaled 4 p+ as opposed to zero because when foods are prepared and consumed together, they’re calculated in totals rather than separately. It makes sense, but am I the only one who didn’t realize this until recently?

0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 1 + 3 =11

And here are some details on the smoothie that I made today. I don’t regret utilizing my PointsPlus to eat it, but it does make me keenly aware of the fact that fruits are not always free. Check out these details:

1 c strawberries (o)

1 large banana (0)

1/2 c skim milk (1)

0 + 0 + 1 =6

When consumed separately, these fruits and this milk are only worth 1 p+, but eat them together and they become 6 p+! That’s a big difference! And while it makes a lot more sense this way, it’s important to know that this is how it works because if I had eaten the smoothie (which was fantastic by the way) without calculating the points properly, I would have exceeded my points for the day.

And earlier this evening, I wanted a snack and needed some protein so I considered having peanut butter and banana on toast, but after adding the ingredients into the recipe builder I decided to make some adjustments because the points were so different than I thought they’d be. (I’m glad I checked!)

5 + 0 =9

Last year, when Weight Watchers unrelieved the PointsPlus plan, I was frustrated because I had learned so much about what a proper portion looked like through Momentum. And I didn’t understand how fruits could be counted as zero p+, but now I think I understand! And knowing that while fruits when eaten alone can occasionally be zero p+, I’m much more comfortable with PointsPlus based on my new understanding. I had trouble wrapping my head around the fact that fruits and veggies were zero so I’m okay with this new knowledge. And in addition to working out hard, this new information helps me feel like I’m back on the right track.